Pages Menu
Categories Menu

Posted by on Dec 7, 2016

The Lines are Blurring: How Leaders Can Respond to the Ever-Changing Work Environment

The Lines are Blurring: How Leaders Can Respond to the Ever-Changing Work Environment

While examples of blurring lines offer some clues as to why organizational life is feeling so different, it leaves many organizational leaders with a big unanswered question: What do all these blurring lines mean for the future of organizations? Here are four highly recognized values of organizational change that will help you get to the heart of real organizational change.

Read More

Posted by on Nov 22, 2016

Well-Defined Roles Are the Basis for Long-term Talent Management

Well-Defined Roles Are the Basis for Long-term Talent Management

Every aspect of talent management is impacted by how we define our people’s jobs, specifically their job accountabilities, technical job competencies, and behavioral competencies. Without strong organizational structure (re: strong role and job family definition), organizational changes can take a heavy toll on the staff, responsibilities are muddled, accountability diminishes, and employees can be left feeling frustrated and confused about the integrity of their organization.

Read More

Posted by on Nov 21, 2016

Improve Your Workplace Culture: Visualize It

Improve Your Workplace Culture: Visualize It

We all visualize, whether we realize it or not. Most often, we visualize experiences that have already happened, using our senses, feelings, and emotions to help us understand them better. Visualization can be even more valuable when we use it to create a picture in our mind of something that has not happened—exactly as we want it to be—with the intent that it will actually happen.

This future-focused visualization is particularly valuable for organizational leaders who want to think in new ways about their organization to meet its evolving mission and include an often-missing piece—how to change and align their organization’s culture.

Read More

Posted by on Oct 31, 2016

How to Fix Your Organizational Structure, One Role at a Time

How to Fix Your Organizational Structure, One Role at a Time

A lack of a systematic approach to role definition and organizational structure design can create issues that reduce organizational effectiveness. To resolve a problematic organizational structure, one of the first things to do is to perform detailed discovery work to assess the current state of the organization and the elements that need the most improvement.

Read More